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Nobody at Microsoft understands open source. The people who pretend to understand are just glorified sales people pretending to be developers promoting every new Microsoft product regardless how shit it is or how much better other competing products are (you know who these sales people are).

Microsoft loves OSS as much as they are able to control it. They are like an abusive partner who "love you" for as long as they control every step of your life but as soon as you step aside they'll grab a hammer and smash you in the face.




Micorsoft loves OSS as much as they are able to profit off it. Did they spend $7.5B buying github for the love of ideals?

And sure enough they understand OSS for what it is better than anyone else. Thank you, creative person, here is your exposure.


Disagree. Clearly you don’t work on OSS as your primary job and you don’t know enough teams/people at MSFT.




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